Why Join Us?

The Checkpoint XPR (Extended Prevention and Response) team is dedicated to constructing the next-generation XDR SaaS platform. XPR offers a unified interface covering Incident Management, Threat Hunting & Asset Management, as well as Products Management, Workflow Automations, and Automated Prevention.

The XPR Analytics group is actively seeking a dynamic and skilled Team Lead to join our leadership team in a startup-like environment and contribute to shaping, leading, and delivering our innovative cybersecurity solution.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 4-6 proficient data engineers focused on building a scalable and reliable data analytics solution in the cloud. This solution aims to transform diverse security detection data points into a coherent and concise attack picture and mitigation procedure.
• Establish, nurture, and sustain a team of software engineers.
• Provide team leadership through coaching and mentorship.
• Offer technical leadership by guiding solution design and implementation.
• Collaborate closely with our team of data scientists and analysts, contributing to the development of algorithms, analytic rules, and ML data models to identify and correlate attacks and mitigations.
• Work collaboratively with fellow managers and teams to successfully deliver value to our customers.

Qualifications

• BSc degree or equivalent
• 5+ years of team leadership experience leading data engineering development teams
• 5+ years of experience in building cloud-based services (Serverless, Blob Storage, S3, Container Apps, E/AKS, Mongo) using event-driven and/or microservice architecture
• 5+ years of experience in building data engineering solutions
• 2+ years in cybersecurity solution development
• Experience creating and optimizing big data processes, pipelines, and architectures on cloud-native environments (Databricks, Synapse, EMR, ADX, HDInsight)
• Experience with big data solutions (Redis, Impala, Presto, Hive, Spark, Flink, Hadoop)
• Proficiency with SQL, Python, and one of Java/Scala/CPP